This blog was originally published beginning in 2003. Then, in 2009, I accidentally deleted it. Oops. This is my tedious reissue of the blog. It is in progress and probably will be for some time.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Thursday, September 18, 2003 Owen often makes appearances in this blog, so we are making it official. He will be our guest speaker/ hurricane specialist for the day.

Owen: Hello. I want to apologize to everyone for starting this hurricane. It was a total and complete accident.

This storm marks my third hurricane experience. I had nothing to do with the inception of the other two hurricanes, but I know the guys that did.

My first hurricane, Gloria, happened when I was like seven years old. School was cancelled, and my father thought it would be a good idea to take us to see our grandparents through driving rain and fatal winds. We were driving on the highway, and passed a billboard that addressed obstetric care or something. There was a giant baby on the billboard, and its head poked out from the top of the billboard. The funy thing was that the top of the baby's head had been torn from the rest of it's body. I shan't forget that image any time soon.

So far, there have been no decapitated babies here, but the winds are pretty bad and there are limbs falling just about everywhere. There were two children playing in the ---